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Dia

Dia adds emotion sound quirks and real voices to your text. Free if you run it yourself or pay a few cents to use it online.

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Overview

Dia turns your script into a real conversation. It isn't just a voice reader. It's a dialogue maker. It figures out who’s talking, adds tone, throws in laughs, sighs and other quirks. You can even clone someone’s voice from a tiny clip.

A small crew of undergrads at Nari Labs in South Korea built Dia. They got help from Google and Hugging Face to power it up. Model’s huge at 1.6 billion parameters and it’s all open-source. You can grab it free and run it local or try it online through Fal.ai or Hugging Face.

Here's the main stuff:

  • Tracks different speakers using [S1], [S2]
  • Controls tone and emotion with audio clips
  • Adds natural sounds like (laughs) or (coughs)
  • Copies any voice from a 5 to 10 second sample
  • Works fast around 40 tokens a second

It's built for game devs, podcast makers, accessibility tools or anyone tired of stiff robotic voices. If you want natural multi-voice talking Dia’s got it.

Free if you host it yourself. If you want to use the cloud version Fal.ai charges about $0.04 for 1,000 characters. That’s for text or voice-cloned mode both.

Try it live

You can mess around with Dia on Fal.ai so you can test both the regular and voice-clone setups. Folks on Reddit seem pretty into it and the GitHub’s open for anyone to use.

Supported Languages

  • English

Tags

Freeware Apache License 2.0 PC-based #Voice & Audio

Educators and Trainers Creative Professionals Content Creators Media and Film Makers Marketing and Branding Specialists Voice and Audio Professionals Developers and Tech Creators Nonprofit and Advocacy Creators Small Business Owners Entertainment and Performance Artists Professional Content Creators

This tool is free to use when installed locally and is offered under Apache License 2.0.

  • Voice quality is solid but still inconsistent. Some say it sounds better than ElevenLabs for short dialogue, others feel it’s overhyped or robotic without fine-tuning.
  • Speed is an issue. Many users find it talks too fast by default. Adjusting playback rate or generating shorter chunks helps.
  • Local install praised. Dia runs well on consumer GPUs like the 6900XT but needs ~10GB VRAM. Some report better control locally vs. hosted demos.
  • Voice cloning works but feels hit or miss. Cloned voices sometimes don’t match the input audio or shift between generations.
  • Emotion and dialogue formatting ([S1]/[S2]) are standout features. Users like the ability to inject personality and pacing.
  • Gender and language control lacking. No clear way to assign male/female voices or use non-English languages. Only English is supported for now.
  • Docs are unclear. Many struggled with missing setup details and wanted more info on tuning, emotion control, and inference parameters.
  • Open-source under Apache 2.0 is a win. Many excited about running Dia locally and building on top of it, especially with added REST API wrappers.

[ Reddit ]

Prompt: [S1]Artificial intelligence is a life-changing, sometimes life-like phenomenon—but it’s not without its quirks. Take, for example, the AI assistant who confidently declared... [S2]I am definitely not plotting world domination—wink, wink. [S1]It’s enough to make you laugh (laughs)... nervously... [S2]This test was generated for AI creators dot tools, your go-to destination for AI software made for creators, filmmakers, and educators. Compare Tools

Generated on July 6, 2025:

Tested through Fal.ai Best of 6. Still some repetitions and jumping in going on. In other tests, there were more than 5 seconds long silences, omissions of words and sentences. Speech pace too fast.
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This page was last updated on July 5, 2025 at 9:32 AM